Determine if device is a tablet

[J. Landman Gay]

You're right, I should have said "screen size" rather than "tablet" 
since I'm concerned with metrics. Terry's ratio cut-off of about 1.4 or 
so could work. The new iPhone X has a ratio just over 2.0.

I wonder if the text would be too small to read comfortably there.

On 8/15/18 7:23 AM, hakan at exformedia.se wrote:
> I think the idea is that if you have enough space for a viable landscape representation I think you should support it. The line between phone and tablet is very blurry and according to the rumours even Apple will start to support landscape multi-column apps on the new phones. Eg. :
> 
> https://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/apple-iphone-x-plus-6-5-inch-2018-landscape-mode-ios-12-beta-1893260
> 
> :-Håkan
> On 15 Aug 2018, 08:32 +0200, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
>> On 8/14/18 11:13 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
>>> J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>>
>>>> I need to determine whether the current mobile device is a tablet or a
>>>> phone. On iOS I can use "the machine" but on Android it only provides
>>>> the manufacturer's name.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know a way to do that?
>>>
>>> For screen metrics or device capabilities?
>>>
>>
>> Metrics. I want to allow landcape orientation on tablets but only
>> portrait for phones.
>>
>> Phil suggested getting device info, but mobileBuildInfo doesn't return
>> anything better than "the machine." The server idea doesn't return
>> specific enough info either if it isn't an i-thing.
>>
>> Monte mentioned the screenrect, which is what I started with, but it's a
>> wild guess. Right now I'm using an arbitrary screen pixel width but I
>> don't think it will work everywhere.
>>
>> I thought about using a ratio but I'm not sure what would be most
>> accurate. And I'm not clear on how different resolutions affect it.
>>
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